Thursday's Best Bet: Forever the Sickest Kids in concert

Provided photoFOREVER THE SICKEST KIDS play today at the Lost Horizon. They are (from left), Marc Stewart, Caleb Turman, Jonathan Cook, Kyle Burns and Austin Bello.

A Universal favorite, Forever the Sickest Kids, visit The Lost Horizon.

Texas band Forever the Sickest Kids are a good study in what can happen when things go right online.

In five years, singer Jonathan Cook, guitarists Marc Stewart and Caleb Turman, bassist Austin Bello and drummer Kyle Burns went from scrambling to record a song for PureVolume.com to posting a photo with Cook and Bello literally crossing swords with Texas governor Rick Perry on their Facebook page.

With the release of a self-titled record on March 1, the band still knows how to rock hard. And, says reviewer Alan Scully in the home state Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, “bright, poppy hooks and danceable beats are still at the center of songs ...”

FTSK headlines an all-ages show tonight at the Lost Horizon that also includes Breathe Carolina, We Are the In Crowd, Before Their Yes, Tonight Alive and popular Mattydale teenage band Give Us Jersey.

THE DETAILS

WHAT: Forever the Sickest Kids in concert with Breathe Carolina, We Are the In Crowd, Before Their Eyes, Tonight Alive, Give Us Jersey. WHEN: 6:30 p.m. today. WHERE: The Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Road, Syracuse. TICKETS: $14.99 at www.syracuseshows.com.